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Hello! Long time lurker coming out of the shadows to tell my story of self publishing. I am going to be launching my first novel, Elevated on 9/23. I'm half excited and half terrified. I've gotten some very strong reviews from my beta readers, so I'm fairly confident, but obviously there is anxiety as well. Just a quick overview of where I stand at the beginning of this:
1) Did the cover art myself. I have a background in graphic design which helped and I think it's quite strong
2) I don't have much of an author platform. While I have a pretty active social media life, it's not related directly to my creative works. I do think I can count on my contacts to give me a bit of a boost to start me off.
3) I felt my book fit into the superhero category which is not very deep at the moment. I set my book on preorder and will be informing said contacts above to help me start the first day with some sales (since all presales get lumped together).
4) I decided to go with Kindle select for now, since I doubt I will make such a big splash that putting it up on other sites is necessary. It enables me to use free days later. I'm going to see how it launches and how much I need to boost it.
5) I've gotten a few blogs to review the book, hopefully that will help as well.
And to explain my cryptic title, I always tell people that through my book sales I'll either be able to afford a pizza or a car. At this point, I'm hoping for a fancy pizza (buffalo chicken maybe?).
1) Did the cover art myself. I have a background in graphic design which helped and I think it's quite strong
2) I don't have much of an author platform. While I have a pretty active social media life, it's not related directly to my creative works. I do think I can count on my contacts to give me a bit of a boost to start me off.
3) I felt my book fit into the superhero category which is not very deep at the moment. I set my book on preorder and will be informing said contacts above to help me start the first day with some sales (since all presales get lumped together).
4) I decided to go with Kindle select for now, since I doubt I will make such a big splash that putting it up on other sites is necessary. It enables me to use free days later. I'm going to see how it launches and how much I need to boost it.
5) I've gotten a few blogs to review the book, hopefully that will help as well.
And to explain my cryptic title, I always tell people that through my book sales I'll either be able to afford a pizza or a car. At this point, I'm hoping for a fancy pizza (buffalo chicken maybe?).